David Salmon

Hi there 👋

I'm David Salmon - I work in tech in London

Previously building businesses at Endeavor

Reading & Listening List

I've been asked on a few occasions to share my current reading/subscribing/listening list, so I thought the laziest way to respond moving forwards is to compile a formal one I can share - hope you find something good on it.

Essentials
Extended Reading
Extended Listening
Daily Reading
  • Hacker News - Pro tip: add this extension to your browser to make it a lot more readable - 🔗
  • The Information 💰 - 🔗
  • The Verge - 🔗
  • The Financial Times 💰 - 🔗
  • Arstechnica - 🔗
  • Bloomberg 💰 - Pro tip: don't want to pay for a one-off article, add 'archive.is/' in front of an article link to read from the Internet Archive - 🔗
  • Twitter - 🔗
  • Every - 🔗
Podcasts
  • Slate Money with Felix Salmon - 🔗
  • Another Podcast (Benedict Evans) - 🔗
  • The Vergecast - 🔗
  • Recode Media with Peter Kafka - 🔗
  • Odd Lots, Bloomberg - 🔗
  • Decoder with Nilay Patel - 🔗
  • Infinite Loops - 🔗
  • Ones and Tooze (Adam Tooze) - 🔗
  • Exponent (Ben Thompson) - 🔗
  • Ordinary Astronauts - 🔗
  • Acquired - 🔗
  • Sharp Tech (Ben Thompson) 💰- 🔗
  • Sharp China (Bill Bishop) 💰 - 🔗
  • Newcomer (Eric Newcomer) - 🔗
  • Hard Fork (NY Times) - 🔗
  • The Rest Is Politics - 🔗
  • Newcomer (Eric Newcomer) - 🔗
  • Big Technology Podcast - 🔗
  • No Priors (Elad Gil and Sarah Guo) - 🔗
Newsletters - Companies
  • Espresso, The Economist 💰 - 🔗
  • TI Crypto Global, The Information💰 - 🔗
  • Axios Markets, Axios - 🔗
  • The Split, Banana Capital - 🔗
Newsletters - Individuals
  • Money Stuff, Matt Levine (Bloomberg) - 🔗
  • Stratechery, Ben Thompson 💰 - 🔗
  • Benedict's Newsletter, Benedict Evans - 🔗
  • FT Unhedged, Robert Armstrong (FT) 💰 - 🔗
  • Axios Capital, Felix Salmon - 🔗
  • Chartbook, Adam Tooze - 🔗
  • Bits About Money, Patrick McKenzie - 🔗
  • Fintech Blueprint, Lex Sokolin 💰 - 🔗
  • The Generalist, Mario Gabriele 💰 - 🔗
  • The Diff, Bryne Hobart 💰 - 🔗
  • Lenny's Newsletter, Lenny Rachitsky - 🔗
  • Margins, Ranjan Roy & Can Duruk - 🔗
  • Essays, Matthew Ball- 🔗
  • Noahpinion, Noah Smith - 🔗
  • 5ish, MG Siegler- 🔗
  • Luttig's Learnings, John Luttig - 🔗
  • How they grow, Jaryd Hermann - 🔗
Finance
  • Below The Line, Kevin LaBuz- 🔗
  • Bottom Up, David Sacks - 🔗
  • Musings on Markets, Aswath Damodaran - 🔗
  • Nat's Crypto Newsletter, Nat Eliason - 🔗
  • Recovering TradFi Chad - 🔗
Tech
  • Big Technology, Alex Kantrowitz - 🔗
  • Not Boring, Packy McCormick - 🔗
  • Dancoland, Alex Danco - 🔗
  • Commonplace, Cedric Chin - 🔗
  • Learn By Shipping, Steven Sinofsky - 🔗
  • Fabricated Knowledge, Mule - 🔗
  • Chinese Characteristics, Lillian Li - 🔗
  • UX Collective 🔗
  • Byte Byte Go, Alex Xu 🔗
Politics
  • Prospect 💰 - 🔗
  • Big, Matt Stoller - 🔗
Media
  • Buffering, Vulture - 🔗
  • Screentime, Bloomberg - 🔗
  • Redef - 🔗
Tech
Finance
  • Masters In Business, Bloomberg - 🔗
  • Trillions, Bloomberg - 🔗
  • Invest Like The Best - 🔗
  • Bankless - 🔗
  • Business Breakdowns - 🔗
  • Bloomberg Crypto - 🔗
  • On The Brink - 🔗
  • Unchained - 🔗
  • 20 VC - 🔗
  • ACQ2 (Acquired) - 🔗
Politics
  • The Prospect Interview - 🔗
  • Axios Re:Cap - 🔗
  • The Rest Is Politics - 🔗
  • The New Statesman Podcast - 🔗
  • The Ezra Klein Show - 🔗

If you ever have any additional recommendations, i'm all ears.

Big ben
Proud
Londoner
© David Salmon, 2023